Eileen Crimmins, Ph.D., is the AARP Professor of
Gerontology in the Davis School of Gerontology at the University of
Southern California. She is currently the director of the USC/UCLA
Center on Biodemography and Population Health, one of the Demography of
Aging Centers supported by the U.S. National Institute on Aging. She is
also the Director of the Multidisciplinary Training in Gerontology
Program and the NIA-sponsored Network on Biological Risk. Crimmins is a
co-investigator of the Health and Retirement Study in the U.S. Much of
Crimmins’ research has focused on changes over time in health and
mortality. Crimmins has been instrumental in organizing and promoting
the recent integration of the measurement of biological indicators in
large population surveys. She recently served as co-chair of a Committee
for the National Academy of Sciences to address why life expectancy in
the U.S. is falling so far behind that of other countries. She has
recently co-edited several books with a focus on international aging,
mortality and health expectancy: Determining Health Expectancies; Longer
Life and Healthy Aging; Human Longevity, Individual Life Duration, and
the Growth of the Oldest-old Population; International Handbook of Adult
Mortality; Explaining Diverging Levels of Longevity in High-Income
Countries; and International Differences in Mortality at Older Ages:
Dimensions and Sources.